More than an year ago, we presented a plug-in called Personas: it was all about you Firefox theme, as it allowed to change your theme on the fly, from a huge list, without restarting your browser.
Today I just want to show how Personas works, and why it is a great plug-in to have if you like changing your browser’s appearance often.
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In the past we have covered some Firefox’s plugins that enabled you to take screenshots of web pages’ regions on the fly: their names were Screengrab and Fireshot.
There’s also a new extension that I’d like to share with you, which has been launched by Aviary.com, a suite of web based products for image and audio editing.
Its name is Talon, and it is a Firefox plugin which lets you capture regions of your browser with the click of a button, edit them online, and then save them as PNG files on your computer.
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This add-on allows you to generate a TinyURL for the page you are currently viewing. The URL created is copied into your clipboard so you can paste it into e-mails or IM messages instantly.
You can choose to create a direct link, or you can choose an option that allows the recipient to preview the link before visiting it.
Many times bloggers feel the need of creating video tutorial to best express what they want to communicate to people. There are a bunch of free and paid applications that help you do that, also web-based actually such as ScreenToaster (which I really recommend to anyone as you can use it on any operating system or browser, and which I will cover soon in an article), but a Firefox’s user dream would be an add-on that lets you record your screen.
It is called Capture Fox, a handy tool to create tutorials about a software, a web site or anything that can be displayed on your computer, and not only in your browser as you would think! It records your screen frame by frame, as well as your voice, to AVI files.
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If you’ve downloaded, like me, the Firefox 3.6 Beta release and you’ve seen that your favorite extensions don’t work on it this guide is for you.
I have not given up when my extensions didn’t seem to work properly and I tried a solution, and finally I found the solution in the How To Geek‘s web site. Here it is:
While surfing the main thing is to pay attention to safety. For this reason, today, I submit to you this list of the best add-on to improve your browser’s security.
Here the list:
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Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine would.
Source: Wikipedia
I have been using Wolfram Alpha for graphing functions and calculus problems, but you can use it for any question that needs to be computed, such as calculations, weather tables, measurements and unit conversion etc.
Today I want to show you a way for embedding Wolfram Alpha’s results directly into Google’s search result page: the answer is a simple add-on for Firefox called Wolfram Alpha Google.
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With Xmarks you can sync your password and sync and backup your different bookmark to different PC using Sync Profiles.
To sync your bookmarks it’s easy. Just install Xmarks on each computer you use, and it seamlessly integrates with your web browser and keeps your bookmarks in sync.
Tired of searching for an address opening Google Maps in a new tab? Want to get things done a little bit faster, without losing the quality of the services you normally use?
KwiClick is a fantastic Firefox add-on that allows you to browse multiple pages simultaneously, so that you don’t need to waste any time browsing search results, maps, or anything that concerns Google, YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia, FriendFeed and more.
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Are you one of those people who can’t live without watching videos on YouTube or similar everyday? Would you like a simple a fast way to grab and download your favorite videos from major sharing sites?
NetVideoHunter is a Firefox add-on, that you can use to instantly download videos and music from almost all video-sharing sites, supporting Youtube, MySpace Music, Google Video, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Break, Putfile, iFilm, Videoegg, Veoh, Blip.tv, and more.